Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Spelling and Grammar

"I know my grammar and spelling are not the best in the world, but when you are operating a business or trying to get someone to take you serious. Please use proper grammar and yeah, nup, dude, man, cool gr8 m8 and so on so forth are not good enough. Call me a prude."

This was my personal Facebook status just a little while ago.

I belong to a few groups on Facebook and
"one dude was there tryn to pro his business".I am sorry you are what.

What is wrong with "Hi there my name is "" and I would like you all to know that I am running a business and it is called XYZ and if you are interested you can call me on ......."

He then responded with "yeh man I cum get rid of ya sht for ews."

There is no room in Business for that sort of talk. It drives me mad.

As one of my lovely friends Belinda put it so perfectlyagree for sure! Not that you are a prude LOL, but there is no place for slang and text speak in business :) unless its the word AWESOME ;)I do not care if you use LOL, ROFL and a few smiley faces.

But please speak proper English it is not that difficult, I do believe it is still taught at school here in Australia.

Oh and use a spell checker, if you do not have one download one they are free.
Please also remember we are in Australia and we have totally different spelling to the US.

I have to keep reminding my children it is Zed not Zee!

Oh and we use an "S" more often than not!

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It is tyre not tire

We also spell it colour, neighbour, behaviour

I know I am guilty of wanting to hit the "like" button on an email or in a real life conversation saying LOL. But when it comes to business I really try hard to be correct.

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A little about myself.
I am a wife to the most amazing man in the world.
Took me a couple of marriages to find him but it was well worth the wait.
We have been married for 8 years together for 9 and between the two of us we have 5 children, they range from 26 to 13, and have one amazing grand daughter born Jan 2012.
We live in a rural city in a lovely part of Victoria with the snow fields and beach on our door step.
For as long as I can remember I have been sewing. I remember sitting beside my Nan while she would sew my dolls clothes for my dolls and show me what she was doing so I would learn. She and my amazing mum are my inspiration.